Healthcare
Life Expectancy at Birth
Number of years a newborn is expected to live, given prevailing age-specific mortality rates. The single most comprehensive summary measure of population health. SRS publishes this as a 5-year rolling estimate.
Tamil Nadu, latest
72.6 yrs
2016-20
Change
+2.8%
2010-14 → 2016-20
Rank vs compared states
#2 of 5
TN vs MH, KA, GJ, UP · higher is better
Tamil Nadu's Life expectancy is 72.6 yrs (2016-20), up +2.8% since 2010-14. It ranks #2 of 5 compared states (higher is better).
Tamil Nadu's Life expectancy rose from 70.6 yrs (2010-14) to 72.6 yrs (2016-20).
Source: Office of the Registrar General, India (RGI)
Compare with Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh
- 1 MH Maharashtra 73.0 yrs 2016-20
- 2 TN Tamil Nadu 72.6 yrs 2016-20
- 3 GJ Gujarat 71.8 yrs 2016-20
- 4 KA Karnataka 70.4 yrs 2016-20
- 5 UP Uttar Pradesh 65.6 yrs 2016-20
Tamil Nadu highlighted. Each row shows that state's value and the year it is from — compare like years with care.
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Source provenance
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Methodology & notes
SRS Abridged Life Tables, total (rural + urban, male + female combined). Computed from age-specific mortality rates collected through the SRS dual-record sampling system.
All values
Every observation, by state and period. Newest first.
Tamil Nadu
- FY20 2016-20 72.6 yrs
- FY19 2015-19 72.5 yrs
- FY18 2014-18 72.6 yrs
- FY17 2013-17 72.0 yrs
- FY16 2012-16 71.4 yrs
- FY15 2011-15 70.9 yrs
- FY14 2010-14 70.6 yrs
Maharashtra 7 values
- FY20 2016-20 73.0 yrs
- FY19 2015-19 73.0 yrs
- FY18 2014-18 73.0 yrs
- FY17 2013-17 72.5 yrs
- FY16 2012-16 72.5 yrs
- FY15 2011-15 72.0 yrs
- FY14 2010-14 71.6 yrs
Karnataka 7 values
- FY20 2016-20 70.4 yrs
- FY19 2015-19 70.0 yrs
- FY18 2014-18 69.8 yrs
- FY17 2013-17 69.4 yrs
- FY16 2012-16 69.2 yrs
- FY15 2011-15 68.8 yrs
- FY14 2010-14 68.8 yrs
Gujarat 7 values
- FY20 2016-20 71.8 yrs
- FY19 2015-19 71.1 yrs
- FY18 2014-18 70.2 yrs
- FY17 2013-17 69.7 yrs
- FY16 2012-16 69.3 yrs
- FY15 2011-15 69.0 yrs
- FY14 2010-14 68.7 yrs
Uttar Pradesh 7 values
- FY20 2016-20 65.6 yrs
- FY19 2015-19 65.6 yrs
- FY18 2014-18 65.3 yrs
- FY17 2013-17 64.8 yrs
- FY16 2012-16 64.5 yrs
- FY15 2011-15 64.2 yrs
- FY14 2010-14 64.1 yrs
Cross-state comparison (FY20)
Sorted high → low. Tamil Nadu highlighted.